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مادران را داب من آموختم ** چون بود لطفی که من افروختم
- I have taught mothers to care (for their children): how (infinite) must be the kindness that I have kindled!
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صد عنایت کردم و صد رابطه ** تا ببیند لطف من بیواسطه
- (Unto him) I showed a hundred favours and (knit) a hundred ties (of obligation), that he might experience My kindness directly,
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تا نباشد از سبب در کشمکش ** تا بود هر استعانت از منش 4840
- And not be distracted by any secondary cause, to the end that every call for help should be made by him to Me,
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ورنه تا خود هیچ عذری نبودش ** شکوتی نبود ز هر یار بدش
- Or at least that he should have no excuse (for turning elsewhere) and no occasion to complain of any evil companion.
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این حضانه دید با صد رابطه ** که بپروردم ورا بیواسطه
- He enjoyed this tender care (cemented) by a hundred ties, for I fostered him (Myself) without an intermediary.
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شکر او آن بود ای بندهی جلیل ** که شد او نمرود و سوزندهی خلیل
- His thanks, O honoured servant, were this, that he became Nimrod and the burner of Khalíl (Abraham)”—
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همچنان کین شاهزاده شکر شاه ** کرد استکبار و استکثار جاه
- Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,
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که چرا من تابع غیری شوم ** چونک صاحب ملک و اقبال نوم 4845
- Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?”
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لطفهای شه که ذکر آن گذشت ** از تجبر بر دلش پوشیده گشت
- (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—
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همچنان نمرود آن الطاف را ** زیر پا بنهاد از جهل و عمی
- “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).